When comparing Antergos vs Kubuntu, the Slant community recommends Antergos for most people. In the question“What are the best Linux distributions for desktops?”Antergos is ranked 10th while Kubuntu is ranked 39th. The most important reason people chose Antergos is:

Antergos is a rolling release distribution (as it's based on Arch Linux). Your entire system, from the base OS components to the applications that you install, will receive updates as they are released upstream—with only a minimal delay to ensure stability.

Pros

Pro

Rolling release model make is easy to keep apps on updated versions

Antergos is a rolling release distribution (as it's based on Arch Linux). Your entire system, from the base OS components to the applications that you install, will receive updates as they are released upstream—with only a minimal delay to ensure stability.

Pro

Offers choice of desktop environment on installation

Ability to choose your preferred desktop environment on installation.

Pro

Easy to install

ArchLinux is rather hard to install using command line. Antergos's advantage is the easy installation using a GUI.

So instead of manual installation of software you can just download Antergos which does things for you automatically.

Pro

Offers minimal ISO download

Pro

It comes with every essential utility pre-installed

Pro

Arch User Repository access

It can visit AUR to build packages.

Pro

Surprisingly stable Linux desktop

From popular distros of rolling and standard releases, compared to Debian (stable) and Arch, Antergos stability rocks. Debian is stable, however, it's with old packages and Arch. The only thing that broke it, so far, was compiz-manjaro (C++ 0.9 branch) from AUR, but compiz in Antergos repositories is 0.8 and it is working flawlessly.

Pro

First Linux desktop that makes Windows look bad

Antergos has very nice default themes (KDE/Plasma and Gnome/GTK), which combined with Compiz 0.8, makes Windows looks sad. Antergos can even compete with Windows in regards to stability.

Pro

Full featured desktop environment that is actively developed

Unlike some abandoned, unfinished distros, Kubuntu is up to date and offers a fully functional desktop environment that targets workstation users.

Pro

Customizable

You can easily adjust the workspace to your needs.

Cons

Con

The installer breaks often

The installer, cnchi breaks all the time. It's very buggy.

Con

Package popularity is not visible in Antergos repositories

Small issue, but would be nice to see package popularity in Antergos repos, just like it is visible for AUR. packages.Antergos with AUR gives access practically to all possible packages, so popularity could help in this sea of packages.

Con

Rolling release problems

Rolling release is quite pain sometimes. You might face some problem with a bugged application since you always get the latest version.

This problem is a little bit solved by Manjaro distro where applications are tested but updates are slower than usual.

Con

Often unstable

There have been several bugs reported. Some of these bugs are: shutting down randomly, refusing to boot, refusing to shut down, menus may act strange, icons may disappear, etc...